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Communications

Local reporters aim to launch first worker-owned co-op news outlet in Western Canada, covering Tri-Cities, Burnaby, New Westminster

By Patrick Penner, Tri-Cities Dispatch, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Four recently laid-off Metro Vancouver journalists have announced a fundraising campaign to establish Western Canada’s first newspaper co-op.

On June 4, ex-Tri-City News reporters Mario Bartel and Janis Cleugh, ex-New Westminster Record reporter Theresa McManus, and ex-Burnaby Now reporter Cornelia Naylor were joined by leaders from Unifor and the Union Cooperative Initiative (UCI) to announce the “Save Our Local News Campaign” at the Unifor BC Western Regional Office in New Westminster.

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Transportation

BC Ferries Is Still Facing Labour Unrest. Here’s the Latest

By Isaac Phan Nay, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The union that represents BC Ferries workers is headed into difficult contract talks this summer — but hopes to avoid any job action that could impact ferry operations.

An arbitration panel’s decision on wages earlier this spring will set the tone for the negotiations, said union leader Eric McNeely.

As part of the existing collective agreement, the panel decided May 30 that BC Ferries workers will earn a 1.65 per cent raise.

McNeely said he’s disappointed with the decision to put the workers’ raise behind inflation.

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History, Transportation

Twilight of the Union Steamships

Originally Published on September 6, 2022

The Union Steamship Company served communities along the West Coast up until they were supplanted by airplanes and small motor boats in 1956. Few would have guessed that as little as a generation earlier, when they were still the main way of transporting people and supplies. In the conclusion of her segment about the Union Steamship company, Lynne Jordan talks about the company’s twilight years.  

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Energy, Indigenous Nations

‘A long, hot summer’: B.C.’s approval of PRGT pipeline sets stage for conflict, First Nations leader says

Matt Simmons – The Narwhal, Local Journalism Initiative reporte

The British Columbia government gave a green light to an 800-kilometre natural gas pipeline on Thursday, paving the way for construction to start this summer — and setting the stage for what one First Nations leader warns could be a “long, hot summer” of conflict. 

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History, Transportation

The Union Steamships arrive in Whaletown

Originally Published September 5, 2022

When the Union Steamship company started operations, in 1889, there was a single ship servicing Burrard Inlet. Three years later they expanded their market to include the canneries, logging camps and small communities springing up along the coast. The first reference to a ship stopping in Whaletown is found in an 1899 edition of the VANCOUVER PROVINCE. 

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